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Robert Llimós, a key figure in Catalan painting and sculpture, dies
Awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 1994, the artist leaves behind a body of work marked by plastic research and a career that was to culminate with a new exhibition at Can Framis.
The painter and sculptor Robert Llimós died this Tuesday, October 27, at the age of 83. A reference in contemporary Catalan art, the artist leaves behind an extensive career in which painting and sculpture coexisted as complementary languages of constant research. His disappearance comes a few days before the inauguration of Robert Llimós. Is there still not enough eyes in the face? , the exhibition that the Vila Casas Foundation had scheduled at the Can Framis Museum in Barcelona for November 10.
Born in Barcelona in 1943, Llimós developed an artistic practice linked to formal experimentation and the exploration of the expressive possibilities of image and volume. Institutional recognition of his contribution came in 1994, when the Generalitat de Catalunya awarded him the National Prize for Visual Arts, a distinction that consolidated his place in the Catalan artistic scene.
One of the most emblematic works of his career is Marc , the sculpture he created in 1996 for the Atlanta Olympic Games. The piece had a deeply personal dimension, as it was dedicated to his son, also named Marc, who had died the previous year. A year later, a copy of the sculpture was installed in the Vila Olímpica in Barcelona, incorporating the work into the city's public space.
Llimós' death now leaves in suspense the immediate context of an exhibition that was supposed to allow a reunion with his creative universe. The Can Framis exhibition, initially scheduled for November 10, thus becomes an opportunity to look again at a work built over decades and marked by both artistic research and personal experience.
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